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The temporiser (that is to sayThe temporysour (that is to saye
The temporiser (that is to say: the observer of time, or he that changeth with the time.) Compiled in Latin by the excellent clerk Wolfangus Musculus, and tra[n]slated into French by M. Vallerain Pullain. And out of French into English by R.P. 1555.The temporysour (that is to saye: the obseruer of tyme, or he that chaungeth with the tyme.) Compyled in Latyn by the excellent clarke Wolfangus Musculus, and tra[n]slated into Frenche by M. Vallerain Pullain. And out of Frenche into Inglishe by R.P. 1555.
printed by H. Singleton?, 1555
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¶Temporiser. We think our selves to have herein a great stay.
¶Temporisour. We thinke our selues to haue herein a great staye.
¶Eusebius. Let us consider now, whether it serveth any thing for your purpose, or no. Let us see the story which is in the .iiij. book of the Kings, the .v. Chapter. This example is also partly commendable, partly excusable, and partly ⟨image 51⟩reprehensible: it is commendable, in that he doth not attribute the power of his miraculous healing of his leprosy, nether unto the water, nether unto Elisha: but unto the only God of Israel. And furthermore he did immediately acknowledge and confess, that there was none other God, but the God of Israel: by this confession reproving all other Gods, as vain and false. And thirdly in that he protested and purposed to do no more sacrifice unto none other Gods, but only unto the Lord, in utterly renouncing the superstitious services of all strange gods, the which he had served in time past, inasmuch as he was then fully persuaded, that they were no Gods, but the works of mens hands. These are his doings, where in he is to be commended & praised, beside that he did not show him self ingrate & unthankful towards the Prophet. This is excusable in his fact, in that he requireth to have the burden of two mules, of the earth of Israel, for to make an altar, upon the which he might sacrifice unto the god of Israel. God truly hath no regard unto those things. But inasmuch as in that time the people served God by outward sacrifices, this good man knew not how to show forth his faith and new religion of his heart, then by doing so as he saw it requisite amongest the Israelites. But this is reprehensible,